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Central to the ground-breaking order delivered in December by trucking’s safety watchdog, the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal, is the lifting of standards. The order mandating that owner drivers in retail and long distance be paid for the full cost of their work and which puts in place an auditing system to ensure this happens along the supply chain will change trucking for the better. The transport industry has for too long had to put up with poor standards and shoddy practices making it impossible for many drivers to support their families and ultimately puts lives at risk to keep the wheels turning.

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Garbage truck operators servicing the Gosford Local Government Area have written to Gosford mayor, Cr Lawrie McKinna requesting a meeting to discuss wage rates, industrial conditions and waste tender renewals on Monday, January 18.

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WASHINGTON. Australia is in the process of eliminating pay by the mile for many of its truck drivers, and replacing it with guaranteed minimum hourly wages, a program the government is calling “safe rates.”